desilentio

It's not necessary for everyone to have a Google account?

You don't see the point of being suspicious of secret-source? and especially of an entity that is known to be dishonest? unless it is known to have been dishonest in the precise manner in question?

I think both video and audio were skippy to the point of uselessness. I've also used Jitsi with moderate success with a couple of interlocutors, where video disappeared now and then.

I'm not a company, I'm at a university, and the u. has decided to use Zoom, perhaps because it doesn't care about security, or because it thinks being concerned about Zoom is being paranoid.

Sorry, I didn't think in terms of degrees of untrustworthiness. What I miss is an open-source alternative. Doesn't Microsoft let the NSA tap into Skype calls?

> As for Zoom, I don't understand why people trust them or still use their product if they are at all concerned about security. It makes very little sense.

I certainly don't trust them, but I do use Zoom (from a dedicated unprivileged user, so it can't do any harm beyond recording my conversations), because my colleagues use Zoom, and because there doesn't seem to be any working alternative. I got them to try Jitsi once, which simply didn't work.

PS. There may be working /secret-source/ alternatives, but I don't know why one should think Zoom /more/ untrustworthy than them.

The restored model M I've tried had unpleasantly stiff keys; my model F does not.

I don't want to be rude, but your use of `whom' is wrong; `whom' is only used for the object.

Have you ever had any success with this method; did you ever get anyone (sooner or later) to understand he had been deluded?

May I ask if you know why you use rules of that kind, with spaces only on the side opposite the insertion? I've seen that in print but only once.

Since everybody is now using Zoom and not Skype, I would expect the NSA to try to get the same access to Zoom conversations as they have to Skype conversations. And I don't have the impression that Zoom would say no to billions of dollars to protect its users' privacy.

Any direct evidence that Zoom is giving full access to the NSA now?

What is the probability that my (a nobody's) Windows backdoor will ever be used?

OK, but not for Windows, it seems.